Archive for April, 2008
The processes and approaches incorporated within the guidelines suggest the development of a Continuous Service Improvement Programme (CSIP) as the basis for implementing other ITIL disciplines as projects within a controlled, programme of work. Accusations that proponents of ITIL indoctrinate the methodology with ‘religious zeal’ at the expense of pragmatism continue to be heard.Buy some […]
April 9th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
In order to make ITIL more accessible (and affordable) to those wishing to explore it, one of the aims of ITIL v2 was to consolidate the publications into logical ’sets’ that grouped related process guidelines into the different aspects of IT management, applications and services. The IT Infrastructure Library originated as a collection of books […]
April 8th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. In a recent survey, seventy-seven percent of survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that “ITIL does not have all the answers”.The wider adoption and awareness has led to a number of standards, including ISO/IEC 20000 which is an […]
April 7th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. In a recent survey, seventy-seven percent of survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that “ITIL does not have all the answers”.The wider adoption and awareness has led to a number of standards, including ISO/IEC 20000 which is an […]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. In a recent survey, seventy-seven percent of survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that “ITIL does not have all the answers”.The wider adoption and awareness has led to a number of standards, including ISO/IEC 20000 which is an […]
April 6th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Guidelines for smaller IT units, not included in the original eight publications: has recently been supplemented. In a recent survey, seventy-seven percent of survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that “ITIL does not have all the answers”.The wider adoption and awareness has led to a number of standards, including ISO/IEC 20000 which is an […]
April 4th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
An ITIL Toolkit usually includes materials which are intended to assist in both understanding and implementation, and are designed for both existing ITIL users and beginners. Many ITIL-certified consultants and trainers have set up business for themsleves to assist companies to implement these best practices.The PRINCE2 methodology works with most project management techniques. IT service […]
April 4th, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
Software asset management (SAM) is the practice of integrating people, processes and technology to allow software licenses and usage to be systematically tracked, evaluated and managed. ITIL v3, published in May 2007, comprises 5 key volumes.Problem management is different from incident management. ITSM is characterized by customer focus, or fusion of business and IT goals, […]
April 3rd, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
The goal of ‘Problem Management’ is to resolve the root cause of incidents and thus to minimize the adverse impact of incidents and problems on business that are caused by errors within the IT infrastructure, and to prevent recurrence of incidents related to these errors. Accusations that proponents of ITIL indoctrinate the methodology with ‘religious […]
April 2nd, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments
After the initial publication, the number of books quickly grew within ITIL v1 to over 30 volumes. The goal of ‘Problem Management’ is to resolve the root cause of incidents and thus to minimize the adverse impact of incidents and problems on business that are caused by errors within the IT infrastructure, and to prevent […]
April 2nd, 2008 | Posted in ITSM | No Comments